Digital Archivist - Ottawa, Canada - University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

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Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Description

The University of Ottawa—A crossroads of cultures and ideas

The University of Ottawa is home to a dynamic community of over 50,000 students, faculty and staff, who live, work and study in both French and English.

Our campus is a crossroad of cultures and ideas, where bold minds come together to inspire game-changing ideas.

We believe in the power of representation, and that increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff supports this objective.

Our goal is to provide students with the best possible learning experience, in an environment that reflects the diversity of its people, their ideas, and their identities.

We are one of Canada's top 10 research universities—our professors and researchers explore new approaches to today's challenges.

One of a handful of Canadian universities ranked among the top 200 in the world, we attract exceptional thinkers and welcome diverse perspectives from across the globe.

Our employees come together around the shared purpose of constant improvement, personal development, service excellence, teamwork and a passion for learning with a desire to make uOttawa and the world a better place.

Everyone's contributions are valued, we all play a part in making uOttawa a world-class institution. Most importantly, we make it possible for you to achieve your full potential. Because at uOttawa, you belong

About the Library

In alignment with the ambitious vision and core aspirations of Transformation 2030, the University of Ottawa Library advances cutting edge research and supports transformative learning by connecting the uOttawa community to expertise, services, collections and technology in a welcoming and supportive environment.

The University of Ottawa Library is composed of 3 main libraries - the Morisset Library (Arts and Science), the Brian Dickson Law Library and the Health Sciences Library - in addition to a number of specialized research collections.

It has approximately 150 employees, including 55 librarians, serving the students, faculty and employees of the University.

Position Purpose:

The Digital Archivist is responsible for ensuring the integrated management of the born-digital archival material held and acquired by the Archives and Special Collections in keeping with archival principles, rules and standards.

The incumbent provides direct support and advice to the Manager, Archives and Special Collections for the development of workflows and practices and oversees the management of born-digital and digitized content.

The Digital Archivist serves as the local expert and user of digital preservation, disk-imaging, and asset management software

The Digital Archivist is also responsible for the migration of archival material on legacy media to digital formats and develops digitization initiatives to enhance access to the collections.

Essential Qualifications:

Graduate degree in Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies or a related field
Minimum of three years working in an archival setting, including experience working with borndigital archival material.

Key competencies required at uOttawa:

Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning:
Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to achieve an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.

Initiative:
Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Be proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond expectations whenever possible.

Service Excellence:

Reflect a positive attitude, demonstrate competence and professionalism, treat members of the community with respect, exercise care, devote full attention and find solutions.

(Visit the section "Useful links" on the home page to read the detailed definition).

Teamwork and Cooperation:
Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal. Accept and give constructive feedback. Adjust own behaviour to reach team goals.

Other competencies:

Theoretical and practical knowledge and experience of the activities and services offered in an archival setting, including appraisal techniques, preservation, arrangement and description, and reference services.
Knowledge and experience in archival descriptive and metadata standards, including RAD, ISAD-G, Dublin Core, METS, etc.
Demonstrated familiarity with data structure standards relevant to the archival control of digital collection materials (EAD, Dublin Core, MODS, METS, PREMIS)
Demonstrated knowledge of digital preservation standards such as OAIS and Trustworthy Digital Repositories.
Knowledge of a wide range of computer storage media, file systems, software and file formats.
Knowledge in working in Linux and with commandline interfaces or willingness to learn
Familiarity with programming/scripting languages such as Python
Ability to plan, work under pr